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One Quotes by Thomas Ligotti
- As for procreation, no one in his right mind would say that it is the only activity devoid of a praiseworthy incentive. Those who reproduce,…
- Nature proceeds by blunders; that is its way. It is also ours. So if we have blundered by regarding consciousness as a blunder, why make…
- But even if ego-death is regarded as the optimum model for human existence, one of liberation from ourselves, it still remains a compromise with being,…
- While a modicum of consciousness may have had survivalist properties during an immemorial chapter of our evolution – so one theory goes – this faculty…
- The ‘experimental’ writer, then, is simply following the story’s commands to the best of his human ability. The writer is not the story, the story…
- The sinister, the terrible never deceive: the state in which they leave us is always one of enlightenment. And only this condition of vicious insight…
- To be sane, he held, was either to be sedated by melancholy or activated by hysteria, two responses which were 'always and equally warranted for…
- As a survival-happy species, our successes are calculated in the number of years we have extended our lives, with the reduction of suffering being only…
- No one gives up on something until it turns on them, whether or not that thing is real or unreal.
- We live in a permanent state of bad faith, a mutual representation of ourselves to one another for the sake of remaining sane and following…
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